Re: Linux Firewall

On Wed, 24 May 2006 18:08:20 GMT, in comp.os.linux.security, John wrote:
:I don't know what "novell-zen" is and I don't know how to interpret
:"::1:25". Can someone explain?

novell-zen seems to be a desktop management solution from Novell [1]. I
think ZEN stands for Zero Effort Networking.

::1:25 possibly means port 25 on the machine with IPv6 address of ::1
::1 is the IPv6 loopback address similar to the IPv4 127.0.0.1
I said possibly because : is used as separator in IPv6 notation (similar
to . in IPv4) and could create confusion.

Personally, I wouldn't worry about services that listen only on the
loopback interface.

Have a nice day,
Pradeep

[1] http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/zenworks/
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